Failure to acquire IP over DHCP

[Mark Haney]

On 08/30/2012 11:01 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 10:43:59AM -0400, Mark Haney wrote:

>>
>> What is the IP subnet that DHCP hands out?  Is it on a different subnet from
>> 192.168.0.x?
>>
>
> My understanding of networks is next to nothing; by subnet do you mean
> the netmask field as reported by ifconfig?  If so I have quoted that
> below:
>
> eth2: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
>    inet 192.168.0.114  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.0.255

Well, the netmask is part of the subnet equation.  Maybe I should have 
queried you on your level of network knowledge. My apologies for 
over-talking it.

The subnet for the other devices IPs, is it different from 192.168.0.X 
your laptop is getting?  Such as 172.16.0.x Or even 192.168.1.X (X being 
the part of the IP that identifies a specific device.

Does that help clarify?





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Mark Haney
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